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Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Has Mr. Hogan been contacted by the interim administrator of the CRC regarding the operation of the lotteries scheme within the Rehab Group?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: I thank Mr. Kerr and his team for being here today. I thank them for their frankness. We have seen witnesses in this committee room before who do not provide us with information when they possibly have it. At this stage, we can tell the difference. We are missing information because the key witnesses we wanted to see along with those in attendance are not here. The witnesses in...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Who is the acting chief executive?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: There is no intention to fill the CEO position until Dr. Molloy's review of the organisation is complete.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: I want to get an insight from Mr. Kerr into what it is like to be a board member of the Rehab Group. I share some of the views of Deputy Ross, which is no slight on Mr. Kerr or his colleagues on the board. However, I get the distinct impression that there might have been a hands-off approach by the board. From listening for the last number of hours, it appears, and I accept Mr. Kerr's...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Mr. Kerr might refer to a more typical week.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: I return to the issue of Mr. Flannery and his lobbying activities as an example. Mr. Kerr was the chairman of the board for some of the period during which Mr. Flannery was a member. Mr. Flannery was sitting on the board, having been a CEO, and was receiving an income from the Rehab Group. Mr. Kerr was aware of that as were his colleagues on the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Did Mr. Kerr at any time feel there was a conflict of interest where a board member earned an income by virtue of his links with Rehab?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Were those concerns ever articulated?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Was that to Mr. Flannery?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Was it to the chief executive?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: This is the sort of insight I am looking for. Mr. Kerr was sitting on the board. Deputy O'Donnell read out the memorandum and articles of association earlier and Mr. Doyle read a slightly different clause but we know that members of the board should not have been deriving an income from their links with Rehab. We know as a matter of fact that Mr. Flannery derived an income of almost...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Did Mr. Kerr raise his concerns with the chief executive of the day?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Were his concerns taken on board, listened to or dismissed?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Was Mr. Kerr aware that the payments were being made to a company that had been struck off and no longer existed?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Did you become aware of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Did Mr. Kerr raise any concerns about that? Did it ever come up at a board meeting? Did someone say, "God we are paying Frank into a company that doesn't exist. He's already on the board. He shouldn't be getting an income. Is this appropriate?" Was such a discussion ever had at a board meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: To clarify, we have scheduled the section 38 bodies for 17 July. Is it planned to seek an update from the HSE before then? According to the newspaper today, it has turned down a number of business cases that have been made by section 38 organisations. Can we find out the position from the HSE? It appears that information is being made available to the media that we might be able to see.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: Thank you very much.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (10 Apr 2014)

Simon Harris: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the EU Commission on 21 March 2014 indicated in answer number E-000830/2014 that it has not seen the Farrell Grant Sparks Report on the review of overhead and indirect costs for the administration of the school transport scheme, completed in October 2009 and that it will request a copy of the...